The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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credited with making the first fiddle.
"A nine foot coal vein has been
struck neal the surface at Greeley, Col.
AN average egg weig 5 about 1000
grains, divided as follows; Shell LOT,
white 604, and yolk 289.
An average election campaign in
New York city costs the candidates or
their supporters about 5000, 600.
The sea serpent has got around into
the Pacific, and is now reported from
points on the California coast.
Full grown figs Of this seasons
growth are reported to be on the
rees at San Luis Obispo, California.
The Alhambra, the great London
music hall, is said to have paid 46 per
cent. in the last six months in divid-
ends.
"A large lobster was caught in Mon.
terey Bay, California, recently, the first
that has ever been known in that 10
cality.
Before the wedding day she was
dear and he her treasure; but after
wards she became dearer and he treas
uTer.
There have been liz murders COM
mitted in Edgedeld county, South
Carolina, during the last thirteen
years.
The $1,000 school teachers of New
York last year received an average
salary of SOL in cities and 1851 In
towns,
"A Pennsylvania magistrate. who
had united 1000 couples in marriage.
died recently with all his Sins upon bis
head.
The light on the Bartholdi Liberty
Statue, it is stated officially, Is visible
% miles beyond Sandy Hook On q clear
evening.
"A French Canadian is seriously i'll
at the home of his daughter in Paw
tucket, Rhode Island, it is claimed,
100 years old.
In Cuba soup is made of p~lantain.
sometimes dried and ground to a pow
der, and sometimes used fresh and
green for a PURGE.
THRIFTY.-Mrs. Oaks, of Wheat
land, Mich. has pared 1850 bushels of
apples this winter, besides attending to
her household work.
"A South Carolina hunter recently
shot a buck whose head was white and
whose horns were short and curved like
the horns of q goat.
"A Hindoo made a wager that he
would gaze at the sun for ten hours.
At the end Of the seventh hour he fell
down in a ft and died.
In the New York sub-treasury
220,O0 silver dollars passed through
the hands of the clerks in n day for
The purpose of redemption.
"A western man, after losing all his
money, put up his wife as q stake in q
game of poker. But his run Of bad
luck continued. He failed to lose her.
"A bill prohibiting the taking on OF
more passengers than seats can be pro.
vided for On the street cars of New
York, IS before the Legislature at
Albany.
An Oregon man who pointed a
gun at a woman sin fun" and killed
her last month at Albion, in that
State, has been convicted of la
slaughter.
Two colored ladies managed to call
out the Atlantic City fire deparement
the other evening by INDUCING in o
fight, with lighted coal Oil lamps as the
weapons.
"A yacht race, to be sailed in June
over a course extending twenty miles
to windward outside Sandy Hook, is to
be for the novel stakes OF a pint pot
full of gold dollars.
San Diego, California, has one Of
the wisest Cinnamon in the world. He
is a laundryman, and he has kept an
advertisement running in the local
papers for fifteen years.
Burglars blew open the safe in
Jersey City store the other nigh
Sixty dollars, blown from the safe ty
the force OF the explosion, were fou d
by a clerk lying on the floor. Nothing
was missing.
Greece, Professor Seymour, of Yale
University, says, Is having a boom"
Athens, which has increased In popula.
ton from 10000 to 100, 900 during the
century, now has city railways and
steam railroads.
For "a hours increasingly, and
with no other refreshment than some
beef tea and an occasional cigar, q Cape
Colony artist, named Woodcock, played
the piano at Baberton recently, ''dnish-
ing in capital condition"
"A prisoner in Louisville who es-
capped the death penalty by Stimulating
madness and was acquitted on a second
trial by the same means is now unre-
served in his chuckles over the way in
which he deceived the jury.
"A gust of wind blew a passenger
off a tram on the Eastern road, neal the
Mystic river, as he was attempting to
pass from one Car to another while the
train was gong at full speed, but he
escaped serious injury, as he was tossed
intoa deep snow bank.
"A visitor to the p~enitantiary a.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, while casually Look
ing through the institution recently,
discovered in one of the prisoners O
brother of his who had ran away from
home at the age OF seven years, and
was supposed by tho family to have
been drowned.
Ice taken from the Hudson river
has been subjected to a series of exper-
iments by DIR. Pruden, of New York,
VIZ ooyo hR - AOdh0 40 muCl az
1892 living bacteria in a cubic cent?
metre Of one specimen. He wants the
State health authorities to take the
matter in charge.
Bullets have been established at
all way stations on the Orleans lFrench)
railway, under orders from the dIrec-
tors, and good meals Of meat, vegeta-
bles, cheese. bread and wine, are TO be
furnished at q cost Of If. so. go cents
Of our money! at each Of them.
"A young man at San Rafael, CAL,
who heard some one In his room on q
recent night, called to the intruder to
explain the cause Of his visit, or he
would shoot. Receiving no reply, he
fred a ball from his revolver and
wounded his deaf and dumb aunt,
but, fortunately, not very serious y.
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